Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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TEXT (Article 1 of 1): Pittsburgh – Two women, dubbed by police as “men haters”
and brought back from Virginia in handcuffs have been charged with homicide in
connection with the shooting death of a Turkish student, police said.

Charmaine
Pfender, 18, of Pittsburgh and Sara Mae Richardson, 20, of Imperial were
charged late Sunday with one count each of criminal homicide, according to
Allegheny County Deputy Coroner Jim Bodack.

They
were arraigned before Deputy Coroner Fred F. Bell shortly before midnight after
being flown back to Pittsburgh from Virginia Beach, Va., earlier in the
evening.

“There
were no problems,” Bodack said. “The arraignment has taken place and they’re
off to the (Allegheny) county jail.”

Ms.
Pfender and Ms. Richardson are charged with killing Turkish student Engin
Aydin, 24, while on a double date and burying him in a shallow grave in a
remote wooded area near the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport, according
to authorities.

The
two also allegedly shot and tried to kill a second Turkish student, 25-year-old
Suat Erdogan, police said.

Floyd
Nevling, the Allegheny County homicide inspector leading the investigation, has
termed the two women “vicious men-haters” and said the killing was apparently
motivated by “anti-male feelings.”

“I
believe this was a premeditated murder and I am standing by that,” Nevling told
The Pittsburgh Press.

“Anti-male
feelings is what we got from an informant, and that’s all we’ve got so far.”

Police
launched a search for the two women Wednesday, when Erdogan staggered out of
the woods, bleeding from a bullet wound in his shoulder and told police
officers of a date that “went sour.”

Erdogan
led police and bloodhounds back to the site of the shooting, where officers
found Aydin buried under leaves, sticks and clay.

Authorities
say Erdogan was being held in seclusion over the weekend, and had requested to
return to Turkey.

“He’s
still very emotionally disturbed,” said Malik Tunador, president of the
Pittsburgh Turkish-American Association. “They’re giving him sleeping pills and
tranquilizers to keep him calm. He continues to have nightmares and
flashbacks.” Tunador said Erdogan, who along with Aydin was studying English at
Pittsburgh’s Point Park College, would remain in the city at least until the
coroner’s preliminary inquest, set for Aug. 17.

After
the shooting, the two women fled to Virginia Beach, where they turned
themselves in to authorities and waived extradition rights, authorities said.

Ms.
Pfender’s mother, Donna, said her daughter told her in a telephone conversation
from the Virginia Beach jail that she acted in self-defense.

“She
was crying on the phone,” Mrs. Pfender said. “She said the story is not as it
appears. She said it was self-defense.”

In a
Virginia interview with television station WVEC-TV, Ms. Pfender said: “It’s
going to be a hard, sad, a long traumatic thing to go to court and everything
and whatever may happen to us, jail, whatever may happen to us, that’s the
price we’re going to have to pay for something we did.”

The
owner of a sporting goods store in Imperial, near Pittsburgh, said Ms.
Richardson attempted to purchase a box of 50 shells for a .357 Magnum handgun
from his store on the day of the shooting.

Edward
Sarachine told the Pittsburgh Press he refused to sell the shells because Ms.
Richardson, whom he knew, was under age.

“She
asked about the shells, but I turned her down,” said Sarachine. State law
prohibits the sale of that caliber of ammunition to people under 21.

The
Press reported that Erdogan told police he and Aydin drove to the woods with
the two women after one suggested the group visit her relatives.

After
reaching the rural area, one woman asked the men to turn their heads.

As
they did, Erdogan said, Ms. Richardson pulled out a knife and Ms. Pfender
pointed a handgun at them.

The
women took out ropes to tie them up, Erdogan said, but Aydin slapped Ms.
Pfender when she tried to tie him and Ms. Pfender shot them, the Press
reported.

Nevling
said the two men were not robbed. “The survivor doesn’t know why he was attacked,”
he said.

FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 3): As Turkish student Suat Erdogan
spoke with a heavy accent, he was able to draw a picture for a Common Pleas
jury of the moonlight night in a desolate area of a foreign land when his
friend was killed and he was wounded.

Charmaine Pfender, 18, and Sara Mae Richardson, 20, both of
Imperial, are on trial in the Aug. 7 death of Engin Aydin, 24, another Turkish
student at Point Park College, and the wounding of Erdogan, 25.

Erdogan’s story unfolded yesterday, obscured at times by his
limited understanding of English. When the words eluded him, he Turned to a
Turkish interpreter for help in explaining how Aydin was killed in a remote
area of Findlay, near the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport.

The taste of terror emerged from Erdogan’s testimony – his
flight into a dark woods with his hands bound behind him, the pain of a bullet
striking his back and the .357 Magnum revolver fired next to his temple as he
lay in a ditch.

He told of surprise and bewilderment when Ms. Pfender
pointed a gun at them as they sat in the back seat of a car.

Erdogan said his friend asked Ms. Pfender, “Why do you do
this? What did we do wrong?” He was told, “Don’t move. Don’t say anything.”

After Ms. Richardson tied his hands, Erdogan said, she
pulled him from the car by his hair.

FULL
TEXT (Article 3 of 3): Pittsburgh – Two women have been sentenced to life in
prison in the murder of a Turkish student and the wounding of his friend during
a double date in 1984. Charmaine Pfender, 19, of Pittsburgh, and Sara Mae
Richardson, 21, of nearby Imperial, were sentenced Friday in the fatal shooting
of Engin Aydin, 24, of Bozagac, Turkey.

Allegheny
County Common Pleas Judge George H. Ross also sentenced the women .to
consecutive prison terms for related convictions, making the pair ineligible
for parole within the usual 15 to 20 years, a court official said.

Prosecutors
did not seek a death sentence.

The women
were convicted on March 27 of killing Aydin and wounding his friend, Suat
Erdogan, 25, of Karabuk, Turkey, in August 1984. Both men were students at
Point Park College in Pittsburgh and had been living in the United States only
a few months.

Erdogan,
who was shot in the neck when he tried to flee from the women, helped
authorities find Aydin’s body in a shallow grave Aug. 7,1984, in a rural area
near Greater Pittsburgh International Airport.

Miss
Pfender’s sister, Gloria, said shortly after the women’s arrest that the two
defendants were lesbian lovers who had harassed men and “gone violent.” The
remark was excluded from the trial.

Miss
Pfender’s attorney, William Brennan, admitted to the jury that his client was
“the shooter.” But he said she acted in self-defense after Aydin made unwelcome
sexual advances.

Miss
Richardson said she did not participate in the shooting, but only helped Miss
Pfender bury Aydin’s body, then escape to Virginia Beach, Va.

Miss
Pfender also was sentenced to five top 10 years in prison for aggravated
assault, 2 ½ to five years for criminal
conspiracy, two to four years for unlawful restraint and one to five years for
a violation of firearms laws.

Brennan
called three character, witnesses to testify on Miss Pfender’s behalf before
sentencing. Miss Richardson also was sentenced to 2 ½ to five years in prison for aggravated
assault, 1 ½ to three I years for unlawful restraint and 2 ½ to five years for criminal conspiracy. Ross
suspended sentence on a charge of hindering apprehension. The two were sent to
the State Correctional Institution at Muncy.

2 comments:

I went to school with Sara when we was in elementary school... She was a mean big bitch who twisted my arm and made me cry.... she laughed at my pain and I will never forget her hate for the male sex. Back in the eighties it was very uncommon for girls to chew tobacco and be so rough. But she was a very nasty bitch of whom even the most manly of jocks feared her...... She was a beast and I fear if this sick bitch ever gets out of prison

If she ever gets out of prison she will be the next worst female serial killer ever to exist other than Elaine Wuornos.....Imagine the horror and terror this fucked up bitch inflicts upon the small weak females in her prison.... "HER HOME" Imagine how her evil heart inflicts so much pain and sorrow on a daily basis all these years...... I guarantee that Sara is the QUEEN of her cell block.... Inflicting her abusive self centered human hating abuse....... I know what Im talking about because I knew this sick bitch!!!!!